Come visit the cats at:
Mendocino County Farm Supply
Mendocino County Farm Supply
303 Talmage Rd.
Ukiah, CA 95482
Rainbow Agricultural Services
Rainbow Agricultural Services
235 E Perkins St.
Ukiah, CA 95482
Farm Yard Feed
Farm Yard Feed
27705 Dutcher Creek Road
Cloverdale, CA 95425
Also, you can visit us every Saturday
Also, you can visit us every Saturday
Noon - 4pm
Petco in Santa Rosa
2765 Santa Rosa Ave
Santa Rosa, CA 95407
Where you can find your next dog, puppy, cat or kitten :)
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Meet Biddy
Hi, it’s nice to meet you. My name is Biddy. I am a one year old, female, DLH. I’ve been here at Anderson Valley for a while. It gets kind offrustrating being stuck in cage for a long period of time, so I’m hoping to find my forever home soon. I love having people brush my fur, and taking naps… On peoples’ laps of course .
Want to learn more about Biddy? Check out Anderson Valley's Facebook Page!
Want to learn more about Biddy? Check out Anderson Valley's Facebook Page!
Introducing Oriana
Hi there! I’m Oriana, a three year old female, DSH.I love high places and to talk… a lot! So I’m looking for a home that would be able to tolerated a very talkative kitty. I got adopted once but, due to my very chatty nature, I talked all night hoping they were listening and they were! Because, the very next day, I was back here at Anderson Valley.
For more information on me and the other adoptable cats check out:
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Meet Mushers
Hello, I'm Mushers, an eight-year-old gray and white DLH.
I used to have a home but was surrendered over but if you don’t mind, I really don’t like talking about it.
I am a total lap cat. Once I get comfortable, good luck trying to get me up.
Even though I’m an older cat, I’ve still got a lot of life ahead me and look forward to spending it
in my forever home.
For more information about me and the other adoptable cats, check out: https://www.facebook.com/AVAnimalRescue
I used to have a home but was surrendered over but if you don’t mind, I really don’t like talking about it.
I am a total lap cat. Once I get comfortable, good luck trying to get me up.
Even though I’m an older cat, I’ve still got a lot of life ahead me and look forward to spending it
in my forever home.
For more information about me and the other adoptable cats, check out: https://www.facebook.com/AVAnimalRescue
Introducing TJ!
Hello, my name’s TJ. I’m a five year old male, and I’m what you’d call a “Something- Something Dog” I’ve got a little bit of everything in me; basset hound, Labrador, ect.
I’ve had a pretty hard life so far. I’ve had three different homes. One of which I basically sat out in the backyard with no walks! And as a dog, I need my walks!!
For more information about me, contact Laura M. Mares at 707.467.9262
And check out https://www.facebook.com/AVAnimalRescue for updates on me and the other adoptable animals.
I’ve had a pretty hard life so far. I’ve had three different homes. One of which I basically sat out in the backyard with no walks! And as a dog, I need my walks!!
For more information about me, contact Laura M. Mares at 707.467.9262
And check out https://www.facebook.com/AVAnimalRescue for updates on me and the other adoptable animals.
Monday, June 20, 2011
Shelter felines benefit from teen sewing project
Shelter felines benefit from teen sewing project
By KEELY BRAZIL/The Daily Journal
Updated: 06/20/2011 08:30:16 PM PD
Boxes of PVC pipe and a bolt of heavy-duty outdoor fabric fill the room. A card table holding a sewing machine, extra needles and thread, and boxes of fabric squares and metallic snaps stands in a corner. Does 13-year-old Hailey Vanz usually spend the first few weeks of her summer making cat beds? Not exactly. Julie Knudsen, a volunteer at Anderson Valley Animal Rescue, recounts the series of events that led to this Ukiah teen's bedroom turning into a summer sewing factory.
When Mendocino County Director of Animal Control Bliss Fisher found a unique pattern on the UC Davis Shelter Medicine website, she knew it would be ideal for the Plant Road shelter. The pattern showed how to make a simple raised cat bed by buckling sturdy fabric onto a PVC frame. When Fisher mentioned the pattern, Knudsen thought of Hailey.
"She took this on with no hesitation," says Julie Vanz, Hailey's mom. "It took awhile for her to let her sisters help! She wanted to do it all herself." But the project quickly became a family affair, with parents Harry and Julie and sisters Madison, 14, and Isabella, 11, pitching in.
"Each bed takes about an hour to make," says Hailey, explaining how the snaps are affixed to separate squares of fabric before being sewn on, so the cats' hair won't get caught. "The snaps are actually really hard to put in! You have to pound them. My dad does that part."
Hailey hopes that the beds she is making will help make the cages at the shelter more comfortable. "I think it will be funner for the cats to be able to jump up and down and play a little bit more," she says. Knudsen agrees. "It gets them off the cold ground."
It didn't take long for others to get involved. Jim Mayfield of Rainbow Ag provided the PVC pipe at cost, while Brian and Fran Dorsett and Drew Wallace of Iron Paddock Upholstery donated the fabric.
Although the girls are still working hard on the beds, which won't be finished for another week or two, when Knudsen told them two days ago about a pair of kittens found in the Covelo dump, the girls jumped at the chance to foster them.
"Our parents called us all out in the living room, and the first thing we asked was, Are we in trouble?'" recalls Hailey, laughing. "We were very happy as soon as mom told us."
Knudsen remembers their excitement. "I told them I'd bring the kittens on the weekend, and they said, No we want them tonight!'"
According to shelter policy, cats cannot be adopted before they are spayed or neutered and caught up on their vaccinations. This means waiting until the kittens weigh about two pounds, which can take several weeks. During this time, because of the sheer number of animals in the shelter, these kittens often don't get much human interaction. This is where a foster family can help.
"There's a huge difference in kittens that get to spend time with a family," Knudsen says. "It makes them so much more adoptable. It makes a difference in their whole lives. That's the wonderful thing about these girls. Two days ago when I brought these kittens here they were so fearful. Now look how friendly they are! All it takes is three little girls."
There are lots of ways to volunteer at the shelter. "If you can't take cats for a whole two weeks, even just going down and playing with the kittens or walking a dog is a great way to help out," says Julie Vanz.
Knudsen encourages anyone interested to contact Sage Mountainfire, adoption coordinator at the Ukiah Shelter. She teaches monthly volunteer orientation classes and is a great resource for community members of any age who want to get involved.
These are the first kittens the Vanz family has fostered. Would they do it again? "Yes!" is the unanimous response. The kittens, which the girls named Gracey and Bianca, play in Hailey's room as her and her sisters finish the beds. They are visual reminders to the girls of why they are doing all this hard work. "We give them baths, trim their nails, play with them while we're watching TV. We carry them everywhere we go."
As the Vanz girls watch, Gracey climbs onto one of the finished beds, curls up and immediately falls asleep. "Look!" says Hailey. "She likes it."
Monday, June 13, 2011
Mobile Veterinary Medical Clinic visits Covelo
Not being familiar with Covelo, my first clue that I was in the right place was a row of cars with the letters RAVS (Rural Area Veterinary Services), written in white shoe polish across the back window of the line of cars, with license plates from states like, Idaho, Florida, Colorado, Arizona, and Washington. In the middle of a remote town that has only one long treacherous road in or out, is an international group of young professional people all there to help make life better for the animals of an area with no veterinary services. The Humane Society Veterinary Medical Association Field Services (HSVMA-FS) has two groups of approximately 50 volunteers each, one group that travels the US and the other that travels internationally. They spend one week a year in Covelo working as much as 16 hour days doing medical examinations, performing close to 50 spay and neuter surgeries daily, vaccinations, heartworm testing and treatment, and anything else that may come through the door, all free of charge. The clients are taken on a first come first served basis so people with their pets start lining up outside the door of the Recreation Center as early as 5:30 AM.
The Recreation Center in Covelo is an aging community center that, for this week only, has been turned into a medical clinic with 5 operating rooms, a recovery room, dorm room, and dining room. In this cavernous room, two large screened tents are erected to provide for the safety of the cats, one for medical exams and the other for a post operative recovery room. The dogs, all sizes and colors, are held in a long row of cages, some waiting for their surgery and others waiting to go home. In a storage room, several people are monitoring the dogs immediately after their surgeries and providing them every bit of professional medical care that they would receive at any veterinary office.
Just beyond all this activity is a row of sagging cots with sleeping bags on the stage area of the room where these hard working volunteers get to sleep after the last animal goes home at the end of the day. In the kitchen area is an incredible array of food provided by the citizens of Covelo. Behind all the food sits a pressure cooker type autoclave on the propane fired stove that sterilizes the instruments, busily being run by a volunteer husband and wife team from Portland . The cost of feeding 55 people for a week is close to $1000 which is mostly paid for by BONES Animal Rescue of Covelo and Barbara Thrasher, founder. Barbara and her helpers, Bev Marshman and Sam House, are tireless workers and advocates for the Round Valley animals. The community center is provided at no cost but BONES must pay for the utilities which run close to $700 for the week.
The Humane Society Veterinary Medical Association Field Services staff and volunteers are an inspiring group of young people who assemble from all over the country and Canada for the chance to experience real life down and dirty veterinary work that they don’t get in school. They bring with them 8 veterinarians, 7 veterinary technicians, 33 veterinary students and 2 support staff who do the paperwork and registration. There are three paid staff workers and the rest are volunteers taking two weeks out of their lives to live in primitive conditions to gain invaluable experience.
I spoke with Kate from Boston, a vet who works in a specialized neurological practice; Shirley from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada who flew to SFO with 4 other vet students, Chelsea a 3rd year student from Colorado, Melodie a 2nd year student from Seattle who drove 36 hours with two other students, Katie who grew up in Kentucky but is going to vet school in Philadelphia, and Susie a vet tech who drove alone from British Columbia. All these volunteers not only work for nothing, but must pay their own expenses to get here. Windi from Santa Cruz is one of the few paid staff and her full time job is planning the logistics of not only their visit to Covelo, but as they continue on to Hoopa, CA, South Dakota, North Dakota and Washington in addition to the international crew who is now in Mexico but will soon be traveling to Guatemala, Peru, El Salvador, and Ethiopia. They all say they do this for the experience they can’t get from any other program.
It was an inspiring and humbling experience to watch the long line of dogs and cats come in who may never have had the opportunity to see a vet before, each one receiving compassionate and encompassing medical care usually reserved for those animals with easily accessible veterinary services. To learn more about this program, go to www.hsvma.org
If you would like to make a donation to BONES Animal Rescue of Covelo to help defray the expenses of this clinic, checks can be sent to PO Box 1009, Covelo, CA 95428. All donations are tax deductible.
submitted by: Julie Knudsen, AVAnimal Rescue Volunteer Extraordinaire!!
YAY!!
Published in the Ukiah Daily Journal
http://www.ukiahdailyjournal.com/ci_18268763
YAY!!
Published in the Ukiah Daily Journal
http://www.ukiahdailyjournal.com/ci_18268763
Monday, March 21, 2011
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Welcome to the 1st Annual Pawfest 2011
Welcome to the 1st Annual Pawfest 2011
Originally uploaded by AVAnimalRescue
Pawfest 2011 - 1st annual fundraiser
Time
Saturday, April 2 · 2:00pm - 5:00pm
Location
Anderson Valley Brewing Company
17700 Boonville Road
Boonville, CA
Created By
Anderson Valley Animal Rescue
More Info
Anderson Valley Animal Rescue is planning our first ever :) 1st annual fundraising event to raise funds for spay & neuter - yay!!!!
Save the date: 4.2.11
Keep up on the happenings: www.avanimalrescue.petfinder.org
Ramble (on)
Ramble (on)
Originally uploaded by AVAnimalRescue
She is one of THREE cats who were found to have been shot by a pellet gun!!!
What is wrong with people?
Why not be a part of the solution instead of the problem.....
RIP
RIP
Originally uploaded by AVAnimalRescue
Little Luigi moved to a different plane today, after a hard won fight with FIP, he died at home, surrounded by the comforts he knew and loved, a warm fire, gentle strokes and love.
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